{"id":54765,"date":"2023-04-25T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54765"},"modified":"2023-04-26T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T21:32:29","slug":"brit-turned-american-on-the-glories-of-suburbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54765","title":{"rendered":"Brit-Turned-American On the Glories of Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British-born Laurence Brown has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCqabPJa-N6ORAlO5yMBtWXg\">a YouTube channel<\/a> dedicated to documenting the differences between Britain and the USA. In the last year, he&#8217;s become and American citizen and bought a house in the suburbs (Chicago&#8217;s, alas), and has some observations, mostly positive, about American suburbs, including the community of dog owners, immaculate lawns, and America&#8217;s love affair with rectangles. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4nogMqM3yqE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British-born Laurence Brown has a YouTube channel dedicated to documenting the differences between Britain and the USA. In the last year, he&#8217;s become and American citizen and bought a house in the suburbs (Chicago&#8217;s, alas), and has some observations, mostly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54765\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":49,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9546,9547,6641,778,2878],"class_list":["post-54765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laurence-brown","tag-lost-in-the-pond","tag-suburbs","tag-uk","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54778,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions\/54778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}